Monash Medical Centre Clayton, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia; Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia; Monash Emergency Research Collaborative, Monash Health, Clayton, Victoria, Australia.
Department of Anaesthesia, Austin Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria, Australia.
J Hosp Infect. 2021 Jun;112:104-107. doi: 10.1016/j.jhin.2021.04.003. Epub 2021 Apr 14.
Personal protective equipment (PPE) is essential for healthcare worker (HCW) safety. Conservation of PPE for clinical use during the COVID-19 pandemic reduced its availability for training, necessitating an innovative approach to sourcing high physical resemblance PPE (HPR-PPE). We present a case study of crowd-sourcing of HPR-PPE to train HCWs. Survey results indicated that HPR-PPE enabled high-fidelity practise of PPE application and removal, aided procedure recall, improved user confidence and was sufficiently similar to medical-grade PPE. HPR-PPE provided a novel and cost-effective alternative. We also demonstrated that medical-grade PPE can be sourced from non-medical institutions and businesses during a pandemic.
个人防护设备（PPE）对于医护人员（HCW）的安全至关重要。在 COVID-19 大流行期间，为了临床使用而节约 PPE，减少了用于培训的 PPE 数量，因此需要创新的方法来寻找具有高度物理相似性的 PPE（HPR-PPE）。我们介绍了一种利用众包来培训 HCW 使用 HPR-PPE 的案例研究。调查结果表明，HPR-PPE 能够实现 PPE 应用和移除的高保真度实践，有助于程序回忆，提高用户信心，并且与医用级 PPE 足够相似。HPR-PPE 提供了一种新颖且具有成本效益的替代方案。我们还证明，在大流行期间，可以从非医疗机构和企业获得医用级 PPE。
